7 Have I committed an offence in humbling myself that ye might be exalted because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
8 I deprived the other congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9 And when I was present with you and had need, I was not a burden to any of you, for that which was lacking to me was supplied by the brethren which came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10 It is the truth of Christ in me that this glory shall not be sealed up unto me in the regions of Achaia.
11 Why? because I do not love you? God knows.
12 But what I do, I will continue to do that I may take away the occasion from those who desire it to be found like unto us in that in which they glory.
13 For these false apostles are deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.